About the Role
Title: Senior Principal IT Technologist – Digital Health
Location: CO-Lafayette
Job Description:
The preferred working location is the Medtronic location in Lafayette, Colorado; the selectedcandidate may also work remotely within the US or onsite at a US-based Medtronic facility.
CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES
The Medtronic Digital Health organization is Medtronics technology team focused on next generation Digital Health capabilities which deliver on the Medtronic mission and vision to deliver Insight Driven Care. This role will operate within the Digital Health Applications & Interoperability subgroup of the broader Digital Health team, focused on patient engagement, care coordination, AI, healthcare analytics & interoperability amongst other advanced technologies which enhance our product portfolio with new services, while improving clinical & patient experiences.
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact.
Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions were a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT
A DAY IN THE LIFE
- Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
- Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
- Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements, and characteristics of overall system.
- Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities.
- Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
- May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
- May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
- Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
- Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
- Gather and prioritize integration requirements.
- Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve problems.
- Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
- Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems.
- Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility.
- Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.
MUST HAVE(Minimum Qualifications)
- High school diploma (or equivalent) and 12+ years of experience OR
- Bachelors degree and 10+ years of experience or advanced degree and 8+ years of experience
NICE TO HAVE(Preferred Qualifications)
- Strongly Preferred:
- Previous Medtronic experience
- Previous Healthcare or Medical Device experience
- Software Development Experience:
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- AWS Serverless Architecture Design & Development (Lambda, S3, Cognito, API Gateway, Identity & Access Management)
- DynamoDB, Postgres, AWS RDS
- DevOps Tooling & Implementation (GitLab, Artifactory, Terraform, Antora)
- Python Development
- Application Monitoring & Logging
- Experience working with Healthcare Data, including HL7v2, FHIR and DICOM
- Building software classified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
- Experience implementation enterprise grade cyber security & privacy by design into software products
- Experience working in Digital Health software
- Experience developing global applications
- Strong understanding of SDLC Waterfall & Agile methodologies
- Software estimation
- Experience leading software development teams onshore and offshore